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Don Juan Tenorio

by José Zorrilla

Pages
about 171
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
3.1 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

Hostería de Cristófano Buttarelli. The Inn of Cristófano Puerta en el fondo que da a la calle: Buttarelli. A door at the back mesas, jarros y demás utensilios leads out to the street: tables, propios de semejante lugar. jugs and other utensils appropriate for such a place.

(Don Juan, con antifaz, sentado a una (Don Juan, masked, seated at a mesa escribiendo. Buttarelli y table, writing. Buttarelli and Ciutti, a un lado esperando. Al Ciutti, to one side, waiting. As levantarse el telón, se ven pasar por the curtain rises, in the la puerta del fondo máscaras, background one can see through estudiantes y pueblo con hachones, the door at the back people músicas, etc.) wearing masks, students, people with torches, musicians, etc.)

DON JUAN: ¡Cuál gritan esos malditos! How they shout those devils! Pero ¡mal rayo me parta Let me be damned by forked lightning si, en concluyendo la carta , if when this letter I'm writing no pagan caros sus gritos! is done, I don't end their revels! (Sigue escribiendo.) (He continues writing.)

CIUTTI: (A Buttarelli.) (To Buttarelli) Buen agosto A good harvest para rellenar la arquilla. for re-filling the coffers.

BUTTARELLI: ¡Quiá! Corre ahora por Sevilla Hey! No fun and plenty of bother poco gusto y mucho mosto. running around in Seville's dust. Ni caen aquí buenos peces, And you don't catch such good fish here, que son casas mal miradas since these inns don't find favour por gentes acomodadas, with gentlemen who are wealthy: y atropelladas a veces. or even, at times, the masses.

BUTTARELLI: Hoy no entra en la cuenta, Is not in the reckoning. se ha hecho buen trabajo. Good work's already been done.

CIUTTI: ¡Chist! Habla un poco más Shhh! Talk a little less loud bajo, then, que mi señor se impacienta pronto. or my master will soon be beckoning.

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